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§ 37-29-3. Official seal - Each junior college shall have an official seal to be...
§ 37-29-5. Title to lands; buildings and improvements - Title to lands may be acquired and buildings and other...
Junior College Districts
§ 37-29-31. Junior college districts created - There are hereby created the following junior college districts comprising...
§ 37-29-33. Property of existing institutions transferred to and vested in district trustees - Except as otherwise provided in Sections 37-29-1 through 37-29-273, all...
§ 37-29-37. Continuation of operation of junior college lying in county bordering on the Mississippi River - The governing authorities of other counties and municipalities lying outside...
§ 37-29-39. Continuation of Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College District - It is expressly provided that nothing in Sections 37-29-1 through...
President and Board of Trustees
§ 37-29-61. President; selection and term - The executive head of a junior college shall be the...
§ 37-29-69. Junior college attendance centers - Any junior college district is hereby authorized and empowered to...
§ 37-29-71. Preparation of budget - The board of trustees shall annually prepare a budget which...
§ 37-29-73. Board may execute oil, gas and mineral leases; terms; limits - The board of trustees is authorized to execute oil, gas...
§ 37-29-75. Sales of surplus real and personal property - When any land or other property owned by a junior...
§ 37-29-76. Exchange of lands - When any junior college district in which the junior college...
§ 37-29-77. Lease of school buildings, equipment and lands - The board of trustees of any junior college is hereby...
§ 37-29-79. Transportation of pupils; no additional allocation; promulgation of rules - Any junior college district is charged with the responsibility for...
§ 37-29-81. Fees and tuition - The district, in the discretion of the board of trustees,...
§ 37-29-85. Liability insurance to cover official actions of board members - The board of trustees of any public junior college district...
§ 37-29-87. Conveyance of land to counties within junior college districts - The board of trustees of any public junior college district...
Borrowing of Money; Issuance of Bonds
§ 37-29-103. Long-term borrowing; procedure - Any board of trustees may, in its discretion, by the...
§ 37-29-105. Utilization of available funds for commencement of projects for which bonds have been authorized - In the event that bonds shall have been authorized for...
§ 37-29-107. Issuance of bonds for dormitories and other housing facilities - Subject to the approval of the Mississippi Community College Board,...
§ 37-29-109. Resolution authorizing issuance of bonds; bond provisions; sale - The loans authorized by Section 37-29-107 and Sections 37-29-401 through...
§ 37-29-111. When bonds may be refunded - Bonds issued under the provisions of Section 37-29-109, may be...
§ 37-29-113. Refunding bonds - For the purpose of refunding any bonds issued under the...
§ 37-29-115. Securing payment of bonds - The boards of trustees, in the issuance of bonds under...
§ 37-29-117. Actions or proceedings by bondholders - The holder of any bond or any interest coupon issued...
§ 37-29-119. Full faith and credit of state not pledged to payment of bonds - It shall be understood that the full faith and credit...
§ 37-29-121. Junior college district may borrow not to exceed $50,000 for housing facilities - Any junior college district, supported in whole or in part...
§ 37-29-123. Declaration of intention to borrow; issuance of notes; repayment - In any such case the board of trustees of such...
§ 37-29-125. Board of trustees to fix and collect fees, rents and charges; disposition of monies - The board of trustees of any such junior college district...
§ 37-29-127. Foregoing sections as cumulative - Sections 37-29-121 through 37-29-125 shall be construed as cumulative and...
Authority to Enter into Lease Agreements
§ 37-29-131. Lease limitation; machinery, equipment, furnishings, and fixtures - The board of trustees of any community or junior college...
§ 37-29-133. Option to purchase; fair market value - All such leases shall contain an option granting the board...
§ 37-29-135. Authority to lease for purposes of construction, repair, or rehabilitation of buildings or facilities - The board of trustees is authorized to lease land and/or...
§ 37-29-137. Lessee's obligation to pay amounts due or perform covenants limited to current and specific appropriations - Subject to the provisions of Sections 37-29-131 through 37-29-139, any...
§ 37-29-139. Sections 37-29-131 through 37-29-139 full and complete authority for authorization, execution, and delivery of leases - Sections 37-29-131 through 37-29-139, without reference to any other statute...
Taxation
§ 37-29-141. Determination of tax rate; tuition may be fixed in lieu of taxation - The board of trustees of any junior college district as...
§ 37-29-145. Taxes shall be levied until previously issued bonds retired - In the event any county shall have outstanding bonds or...
Vocational and Vocational-Technical Education
§ 37-29-161. Short title - Sections 37-29-161 through 37-29-173 may be cited as the "Mississippi...
§ 37-29-163. Declaration of intent - It is hereby declared to be the intent of the...
§ 37-29-165. Junior college vocational and technical training fund; expenditures from fund - There is hereby created within the state building commission a...
§ 37-29-167. Applications for benefits; local matching funds; district board of trustees authorized to receive gifts - Any state public junior college desiring any benefit available under...
§ 37-29-169. Allocation of funds; review of application; certificate of necessity; disposition of application - The formula for allocating funds to the state's public junior...
§ 37-29-171. Approval of expenditures - No expenditures shall be made under the provisions of the...
§ 37-29-173. Use of local and supporting funds - Local funds made available to the junior colleges or supporting...
§ 37-29-175. Lease of facilities for industrial training of students - If a junior college now or hereafter establishes facilities for...
§ 37-29-177. Specialized programs in vocational and vocational-technical education shall be available to out-of-district students - Specialized programs in vocational and vocational-technical education which are not...
Nurse Training Programs
§ 37-29-201. Hospitals, counties and municipalities may support nurse training programs - The official boards of the various public supported hospitals of...
Students
§ 37-29-231. Students' residency and fees - The provisions of Sections 37-103-1 through 37-103-29 relating to the...
§ 37-29-233. Diplomas - When a student has successfully completed the course prescribed for...
§ 37-29-235. Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society; definition - A public junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society, as...
§ 37-29-237. Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society, declared to be unlawful - Any public junior college fraternity, sorority, or secret society as...
§ 37-29-239. Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society; unlawful for pupils to join, belong to, or participate in activities - It shall be unlawful for any pupil attending the public...
§ 37-29-241. Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society; duties of district boards of trustees - All boards of trustees of public junior college districts shall...
§ 37-29-243. Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society; solicitation of pupils; penalty - It shall be unlawful for any person not enrolled in...
Miscellaneous
§ 37-29-261. Board of supervisors may permit county road department employees or road district employees to assist in maintenance of campus streets - The board of supervisors of any county which levies a...
§ 37-29-263. Defraying costs of providing electronic data processing equipment - Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the...
§ 37-29-265. Municipalities and municipal separate school districts may issue bonds for establishing and maintaining junior colleges - The municipalities of Mississippi and the municipal separate school districts...
§ 37-29-267. Municipalities and counties may purchase land and buildings for junior college - Any municipality, county or counties, acting alone or jointly with...
§ 37-29-269. Relationship to county agricultural high schools - Nothing in Sections 37-29-1 through 37-29-273 shall be construed to...
§ 37-29-271. Abolition of high school department and confining of activities to junior college work; restoration of high school department to curriculum - Where any agricultural high school has extended its curriculum, so...
§ 37-29-272. Transfer of agricultural high school to county board of education - The board of trustees of any community college district in...
§ 37-29-273. Attendance of county pupils at municipal junior college - The county superintendent of education of a county in which...
§ 37-29-275. Application of general criminal laws of state; security officers vested with powers of constables; authorization to bear arms if certified; jurisdiction of peace officers employed by public community/junior colleges - Any act, which, if committed within the limits of a...
§ 37-29-277. Board of trustees or educational building corporation required to purchase business interruption insurance on certain auxiliary facilities - When the board of trustees of any community or junior...
Funding for Community and Junior Colleges
§ 37-29-301. Legislative findings and declarations - The Legislature finds and declares as follows: Mississippi's public community...
§ 37-29-303. Definitions - As used in Sections 37-29-301 through 37-29-305, the following terms...
Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College District
§ 37-29-401. Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College District created - There is hereby created a junior college district comprised of...
§ 37-29-403. Transfer of property to junior college district - All of the property belonging to the board of trustees...
§ 37-29-405. President - The Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College District shall be under...
§ 37-29-407. Powers of president - The president of the junior college shall have the power...
§ 37-29-409. Selection of trustees; terms - The operation and control of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior...
§ 37-29-411. General powers and duties of trustees - The Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior...
§ 37-29-413. Junior college attendance centers - The Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College District is hereby authorized...
§ 37-29-415. Preparation of budget - The board of trustees of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior...
§ 37-29-417. Execution of oil, gas and mineral leases - The trustees of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College District...
§ 37-29-419. Sales of surplus real and personal property - When any land or other property owned by the Mississippi...
§ 37-29-421. Transportation of pupils - The Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College District is charged with...
§ 37-29-423. Fees and tuition - The Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College District, in the discretion...
§ 37-29-425. Borrowing in anticipation of taxes - The board of trustees of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior...
§ 37-29-427. Utilization of available funds for commencement of projects for which bonds have been authorized - In the event that bonds shall have been authorized for...
§ 37-29-429. Issuance of bonds; authorized purposes; resolution of board of trustees; election pursuant to board's request - When the board of trustees of the Mississippi Gulf Coast...
§ 37-29-431. Issuance of bonds, procedure where board of trustees elects itself not to cause an election to be held - If the board of trustees of the Mississippi Gulf Coast...
§ 37-29-433. Issuance of bonds; validation and sale - If it shall be determined to proceed with the issuance...
§ 37-29-435. Bonds issued are full faith and credit bonds of District; levy of tax - All bonds issued by authority of Sections 37-29-401 through 37-29-437...
§ 37-29-437. Taxation - After the budget shall have been prepared as is provided...
Copiah-Lincoln Junior College District
§ 37-29-451. Copiah-Lincoln Junior College District created - There is hereby created the Copiah-Lincoln Junior College District comprised...
§ 37-29-453. President - The Copiah-Lincoln Junior College District shall be under the executive...
§ 37-29-455. Powers of the president - The president of the junior college shall have the power...
§ 37-29-457. Selection of trustees; terms - The terms of office for the members shall be five...
§ 37-29-459. General powers and duties of trustees - The President and the Board of Trustees of the Copiah-Lincoln...
§ 37-29-461. Campuses - There shall be two (2) campuses in the Copiah-Lincoln Junior...
§ 37-29-463. Preparation of budget - The board of trustees of the Copiah-Lincoln Junior College District...
§ 37-29-465. Purchase of property; capital improvements; lease of facilities - The board of trustees of the Copiah-Lincoln Junior College District...
§ 37-29-467. Transportation of pupils - The Copiah-Lincoln Junior College District is charged with the responsibility...
§ 37-29-469. Borrowing of money; taxation - The board of trustees of the Copiah-Lincoln Junior College District...
§ 37-29-471. Transfer of property to junior college district - All of the property belonging to the board of trustees...
Meridian Junior College District
§ 37-29-501. Meridian Junior College District created - There is hereby created a junior college district comprised of...
§ 37-29-503. Transfer of property to district - All of the property owned by the Meridian Municipal Separate...
§ 37-29-505. Board of trustees; terms of office; vacancies - The control and operation of the Meridian Junior College District...
§ 37-29-511. Preparation of budget - The board of trustees of the Meridian Junior College District...
§ 37-29-513. Tax levy for maintenance of Meridian Junior College District - After the annual budget has been prepared, the board of...
§ 37-29-515. Receipt and expenditure of tax revenues - On or before the thirtieth day of each month, the...
Coahoma Community College District
§ 37-29-551. Coahoma Community College District; creation; boundaries - There is hereby created the Coahoma Community College District comprised...
§ 37-29-553. President; election by trustees of district; term not to exceed four years - The Coahoma Community College District shall be under the executive...
§ 37-29-555. President's powers and authority - The president of the community college shall have the power...
§ 37-29-557. Operation and control of district vested in board of trustees; area represented; number and selection - The operation and control of the Coahoma Community College District...
§ 37-29-559. President and Board of Trustees, powers; authority of Mississippi Community College Board - The President and the Board of Trustees of the Coahoma...
§ 37-29-561. Annual budget - The Board of Trustees of the Coahoma Community College District...
§ 37-29-563. Board of Trustees, authority to purchase property, lease or use private or public facilities, make capital improvements - The Board of Trustees of the Coahoma Community College District...
§ 37-29-565. District responsible for providing pre-professional, liberal arts, technical, vocational and adult education courses and to transport students - The Coahoma Community College District is charged with the responsibility...
§ 37-29-567. General borrowing and bonding authority; taxing authority - The Board of Trustees of the Coahoma Community College District...
§ 37-29-569. Property transferred to District - All of the property located in Coahoma County and belonging...
§ 37-29-571. Counties, support and maintenance of community colleges, allocation of millage - All counties located within the Coahoma Community College District shall...
Educational Building Corporations
§ 37-29-601. Authorization and procedure for organization of nonprofit educational building corporations - Whenever the Mississippi Community College Board shall, by a proper...
§ 37-29-603. General powers of corporations - Each corporation formed under the provisions of Section 37-29-601 shall...
§ 37-29-605. Issuance of bonds - All bonds issued by an educational building corporation may be...
§ 37-29-609. Bonds as legal investments - All bonds issued by an educational building corporation shall be...
§ 37-29-613. Powers of educational building corporations as to payment of bonds - The educational building corporations authorized under Sections 37-29-601 through 37-29-613,...